SP: Lemme get
the names so I know who said what when I type this...
Tom: bass
Tony: drums
Monty: guitar
Tom: (in a high voice) Tom Davis is not here right now.
Tony: Ask us all the questions about Adam Horowitz first, cause we're
playing "Minus Atom" first tonight...so I want to get him out of the
way.

SP: Well, actually,
I really had no questions about him since that is probably what everyone
else is asking about. (In a dumb typical interview vioce) Whoa,
why isn't he in the band, you could be making a million dollars on Grande
Royale and shit?Monty:
Misconception.
Tony: Really big misconception, cause we're so paid now that we're on
Epitaph. Well, we're paid now a little, where before we weren't paid
at all.
Monty: Epitaph gives us a lot of support. Grande Royale was a good first
label, but they never took us very seriously.
Tony: I just like Grande Royale's logo much more than I like Epitaph's...I'm
out here to tell all those kids that they don't know what they are talking
about...I mean, Epitaph supports creativity, and they have a lot of
money now, that means they can create more and more shit. I mean, you
like NOFX, you like PENNYWISE and DFL, so what the fuck are you talking
about? Your guilty pleasure to listen to your NOFX record while your
trying to be some sort of punk.
Monty: Tony got inside, crazy inside.
Tom: When it comes to money, it's all low budget, but it's enough for
us to do it right, and get enough creative control. We have enough money
to do what we want, they don't spend $3000 on something that you don't
want to.
Tony: They don't make you get fat. And when bands get too fat, they
go to Mercury.Monty: If
it wasn't for OFFSPRING, we wouldn't be here.
Tony: Let's get to the meat of the matter, let's let my man speak.

SP: Do you get
a better response from the punk kids or the hardcore kids...oh, well
there's the hip-hop kids too?Tom: We get the best response from the kids who want to mosh around,
and freak out.

SP: Big fat stagedives!
Monty: It's regional, I mean RANCID gave us a show, and there were these
Oi! punk rockers, it just went over their heads. Last night though,
in NJ, there were these kids with mohawks that were totally down with
us. On the East Coast, hardcore is like Sick Of It All and Biohazard,
but to me, it was always like MINOR THREAT, short fast songs. (Tom Davis
walks in, they start talking about the weather outside).
Tony: Our next release on Epitaph is going to be a cassette only release.
You know, they are trying to delete cassettes. And casettes really are
the way that it gets listened to. You make a casette of the record,
put your favorite songs off the record combined with what other favorite
songs you have, and you listen to it in the car.
Monty: What's the name of it?
Tony: Greatful. It's gonna be called Greatful-Dead Fucking Last (Laughter).
Monty: I don't know where it came from...I love the hippie girls with
the hairy armpits. They're rad and cute.
Tom: What about Citizen Monty?
Tom Davis: You named the last one, I wanna name this one. It's called,
Shut up Donkey! (Someone yelled: PLAY HARD DONKEY!!!!!)
Tony: Citizen Monty was supposed to be the vinyl name for the third
record. (Everyone starts talking simultaneously about Hippie Girls,
the third record, and Greatful Dead records).Monty: That's our second record.
Tony: The CD should be greatful, cause we're over. That's the third
record on Epitaph, done and we're happy and thankful. But it's the last
record.

SP: So you have
a three record deal?
Tom: They offered us a 30 record deal, but we thought that would be
a little extreme. Till 2048, we're like old, man.
Monty: All the really big record names only do one off deals like NOFX,
and PENNYWISE.
Tony: But seriously, don't buy CD's, buy cassettes, buy vinyl.

SP: I hate cassettes,
vinyl's cool.
Tony: I just don't like the decision that this medium will not exist
anymore. And the fact is, when they tried to delete vinyl, the entire
record making industry went down a notch in quality. There was no demand
for it, so it's tough to get a good record pressed. (Big metal man
walks in...)

Biohazard Guy (guitarist
I think): Is this the artsy fartsy room in here, oh (looks at
me doing the interview) I'm sorry.

Monty: We hung the
tapestries up for you.
Tony: Welcome to Africa, Pennsylvania!

SP: Crazy bigassed
BIOHAZARD guy.
Tom Davis: BIOHAZARD dissed us man, artsy farsty room.
Tony: (getting back to the conversation) Hey, I care man, I make
sure it has the best PVC we could get our hands on. Epitaph, they were
willing to put up with my eccentricity about where I wanted my record
pressed.
Monty: What is your name, Chicken? Tom's is eagle, just look at him
(referring to his nose). He even had a reverse hawk once.
Tom: Are you talking about me man? (We all went off on this big conversation
about everything from Ian Mackaye to Sony).

SP: So what should
I expect tonight, are you gonna go off?
Monty: Of course, we always do.
Tony: I was going to spin hip hop records, but the club here was kinda
uptight. We have our own turntables and everything.

SP: Last comments?
Monty: Keep it real

SP: 25 ta life
Tony: 15 will get you 20

The tape then
cut off, and suddenly kicks into "Antisocial" by ANTHRAX. What a perfect
end to a crazy interview. DFL were such great guys that when I inqured
about the DFL shirts, Tony whipped his off his back to give to me. No
lie. -chicken